This animation depicts the story of two leaves who have been attached for the entirety of their lives and what happens when the time comes for them to fall. The story is inspired by and set to portions of the symphonic poem “The Vlata” by Bredrich Smetana. The animation was […]
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The following was a class assignment for Environmental Animation. The assignment was to create a collection of objects and then animate them. I chose to use as my inspiration the drawings of Ernst Haeckel. The animation was done in Blender and I also dived a bit into python scripting so […]
Here is a another class assignment for the Environmental Animation. The assignment was to create a 10 second animation that had some sort of magic. Since the whole concept of magic was first introduced to me by C. S. Lewis, this is a homage to his view of magic, although […]
This is the first assignment for a course Environmental Animation class. The Assignment was to create an abstract 3 second looping animation. The animation was done in Blender and the post processing was done in After Effects and If the above animated gif does not work. Here is an mp4. […]
Here is something I did for my Procedural Graphics class. The power of Math!!! Click the image to see the lighting change as the day progresses (there are even some fireflies at night). Click here to view the code on Github click here or on the image to see movie
So it all started with the rather trivial task of adding icons with hover states to a list of downloads. After spending way to much time on such a simple task, the result was learning quite a bit about different ways to use SVG in combination with CSS so I […]
So back in February I attended a talk by Adam Wathan at Sunshine PHP entitled “Applying the Ruls of Simple Design Principles“. I have been programming for 32 years (if you count moving the turtle around in logo). Usually at conferences I gravitate toward whatever architecture/concept/framework is the new hotness, […]
Let me start by saying I love APEX Interactive Reports. It is the one aspect of APEX that allows me to rapidly churn out various reports that can then be modified by end users. However, there are end users, and then there are end users. Not every user can be expected […]
I both love and hate Oracle Apex. I love that it is so easy to get a simple project up and running. I hate that it is so hard when diverging from the standard practices. Recently I was charged with creating a way to import data into a table by […]
So the absolute best part of Oracle Apex is the Interactive Report. It is easy to create, and most importantly, easy for the users to customize. However, one thing I constantly run to when the number of rows exceeds more than just a few is that the headers scroll off the […]